CSC 322.01, Class 26: Work time

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Good things to do
  • Questions
• Work time

Preliminaries

News / Etc.

• In case you’ve forgotten, our weekly “rhythm” is
  • Monday: Presentations and work time
  • Wednesday: Work time
  • Friday: Reading discussion and work time
• We will break our rhythm slightly this week. Vivek Venugopal ‘01 is speaking in the Creative Careers class on Friday. So we will either visit that class at 2:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m., depending on when he is speaking. (I know that not all of you will be able to make it.)
• I’m still working on getting the 321/322 grades together. Probably Sunday night.
• Mentor session moving.

Upcoming work

• Reading for Friday: Chapter 2 of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• Paper: Write your own case study, based on a real case. Due 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, 15 April 2018.
• Normal Friday reports.

Good things to do (Academic/Artistic)

• Cello concert tonight at 7:30 p.m.
• Danforth lecture on Thursday at 11 am in JRC 101. Robert G. Bergman. “Irreproducibility in the Scientific Literature or: How Often do Scientists Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?”
• Visit the two exhibits at the Faulconer Gallery. (Are there still two exhibits in the Faulconer gallery?)
• Guest writer Marlon James Thursday at 4:15 (JRC 101)and 8:00 (JRC 101)
• Chelsea Handler livecast on Women’s Rights tomorrow at 6pm in Harris Cinema (Maybe 7. Sam looks at the Campus calendar. You probably get better info.)
• Roxanne Gay talk Friday noon in Harris.
• Tabla concert Friday 7:30 p.m.

Good things to do (Peer)

• WGMC Thursday at 6pm.

Good things to do (Misc)

• Discussion of the new Diversity and Inclusion Planning Document tonight at 6:00 p.m. in …?
• Give to Grinnell on Scarlet and Give back Day!
• Softball April 7 at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
• Singers Sunday at 2pm in S-L.
• Men’s Tennis, April 14, 21, and 22.
• Track and Field Dick Young Invitational April 21

Questions

Who is this Vivek Venugopal ‘01 character, anyway?

Vivek Venugopal ’01 (Computer Science) is the co-founder of Qwill. After a few years as a software developer immediately after college, Vivek decided to take his career in a different direction and went into non-profit fundraising. That career moved him to San Francisco where he decided to jump onto the tech wave. In 2017, he left LinkedIn to start a new venture, Qwill, of which he is a co-founder.

(Sam notes that Vivek is also at Speechless, which may be another name for Qwill.)

Kumail Nanjiani’s co-host on a KDIC radio show.

One of Sam’s research students.

SGA President.

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